BILL CROSS, LONG TIME MACHINE INSPECTOR FOR HML, AND ALSO WITH JBH…..ON THE DAY OF HIS RETIREMENT, AROUND 1983 (?) BEING PRESENTED WITH GIFTS BY KEN KIRKPATRICK, DIRECTOR & GENERAL MANAGER OF HML & BHH….ALSO OUTSIDE (NOT FOR LONG) THE QUEEN ELEANOR, A REGULAR HML WATERING HOLE, WITH A COUPLE OF MATES, IAN STEWART (BHH) & JIM SMITH (HML).CROSSY LAST SEEN BY THE EDITORS AT EPB`S FUNERAL IN 1995….IS HE STILL AROUND ??
ARC JUDKINS, 1974/5….HML TS-14 ON DEMO FOR POTENTIAL HIRE…MACHINE, DRIVEN BY MICKY LOHAN, WAS ESCORTED BY ROAD ALL THE WAY FROM NORTHAMPTON DEPOT, TO THE QUARRY, RIGHT THE WAY THROUGH NUNEATON TOWN CENTRE ON A SATURDAY MORNING !! THEY DIDN`T GET THE JOB !!
MIKE HARDY OF ARC EDWIN RICHARDS, DUDLAAAAAY, WEST MIDLANDS….VIEWING A NEW 33-07 AT NEWHOUSE WITH KEN KIRKPATRICK…….THEY BOUGHT 2 OVERHAULED TRUCKS.
HML CHRISTMAS KNEES-UP, MAYBE 1985, NO LATER, AS MORRIS CLAYTON, SEEN BRUSHING BACK HIS "HAIR" FOR THE FOTO, SADLY DIED IN MAY 1986. ALSO TO BE SEEN, THE THEN LEADER OF HML/BHH, R.H. (DICK) GANE, NO LONGER WITH US, AND VARIOUS OTHERS, INCLUDING IAN STEWART, DJ RICHARD JORDAN, JIM SMITH, MRS BREALEY`S PERM, AND MRS G., THE BOSS`S WIFE.
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